WORK ADDRESS
Penza State University
Penza, 40 Krasnaya St.
Phone: +79273928961
E-mail: vicont37@yandex.ru

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Doctor of historical sciences, professor

POSITIONS HELD
Head of the Russian history and methods of teaching history sub-department, Penza State University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• History of peasantry and agriculture in Russia of the twentieth century
• Historiography of National history
• Regional history

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009 – Diploma of the laureate and a gold medal in the nomination “The Book of the Year” by the independent public council “100 best universities of Russia” for the monograph “The Hunger of 1932-1933: the Tragedy of the Russian Village” (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008)
2015 – Laureate of the national award “Best Books and Publishers of the Year”, established by the Russian Biographical Institute, Literaturnaya Gazeta, the Russian State Library, the Cultural and Educational Center “Order”, for a series of monographs on the agrarian history of Russia of the twentieth century
2017 – Laureate of the national award “Best Books and Publishers of the Year” as a co-author of the collective monograph “The History of Novorossiya” (Moscow: Center of Humanitarian Initiatives, 2017).
Grants of the Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH):
2006 – 2007 – International Russian-Ukrainian research project “Modern Russian and Ukrainian Historiography of Hunger of 1932-1933 in the USSR” (project manager)
2008 – 2010 – International Russian-Ukrainian research project “Peasant rebel movement in Russia and Ukraine during the Civil War” (project manager)
2011 – 2012 – research project “Grain delivery policy in the USSR during the First Five-Year Plan and its results (1929 -1933)”
2014 – publishing project “Grain delivery policy in the USSR during the First Five-Year Plan and its results (1929 - 1933)”
2013 – 2014 – research project “Mechanism of creation and functioning of the collective farm and state farm system in the USSR according to the documents of the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation” (project manager)
2015 – 2017 – research project “Politburo of the Central Committee and the problem of “wrecking” in agriculture of the USSR in the 1930-1940 according to the documents of the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation and regional archives” (project manager)
Grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR):
2016 – publishing project “The First Commandment”: Grain deliveries in the USSR. 1931-1932. (Collection of documents)”
2018 – research project “Collectivization and Hunger of 1932-1933 in the USSR: regional and national features”

TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL
2015 – to present - Member of the Expert Council on Historical Sciences of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
2015 – to present - Deputy Chairman of the Dissertation Council on Historical Sciences under the Samara State Aerospace University and Penza State University
Twelve Candidates of Sciences and two Doctors of Sciences have been trained

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
2015 – 2017 – Member of the Committee on Science, Education and Culture of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
2010 – 2016 – Expert, Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council on International and Targeted Competitions of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR, Moscow)
2016 – to present - Co-chairman of the national complex program “Power of the XXI century”
2017 – to present - Member of the Expert Council on International Competitions of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR, Moscow)
2017 – to present - Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the First All-Russian Congress of History Teachers in Russian Universities
2017 – to present - Member of the Russian Historical Society
2018 – to present - Member of the Scientific and Expert Council under the Federation Council Chairman of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS
• "University proceedings. Volga region. Humanities"
• "Sociosphere"
• "Russian History"
• "Russian Peasant Studies"
• "Public law today"
• "Centre and Periphery"
• "Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal"
• "Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities"

INVITED AND PLENARY REPORTS AT CONFERENCES
Participant of International Conferences on the History of Russia of the 20th century in the United States, Australia, Japan, China, the Republic of Korea, Vietnam, England, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and other countries

PUBLICATIONS
• Web of Science Researcher ID Y-6302-2018   
• SCOPUS ID 57195419986    
• Elibrary.ru AuthorID 76759